Maker is the Bersted Manufacturing Company, founded in Chicago by Alfred Bersted in 1913. The company began as a small machine shop, eventually producing small appliances after World War I. In 1926 McGraw Electric purchased the growing company and made it into a division of McGraw. Alfred Bersted would later purchase the company back from McGraw in 1930, only to have it bought back from him by McGraw in 1948. McGraw Electric (and later as McGraw-Edison) produced appliances under several brands, including “Fostoria,” “Lady Winsted,” “Capitol,” and “General Mills,” to name a few.